Lois Lane and Superman are the iconic comic book couple, but their romance has weathered some rough patches throughout the decades. Here are ten of these head-scratching occasions. Who could ever forget the time Lois borrowed a time machine to make out with Kal-El as a toddler?

10.) Superman and Lois Lane's Baby Wedding

In 1963's Superman's Girlfriend, Lois Lane #42, a horrible accident changes Lois' personality such that she blackmails Superman into marrying her. Superman, never one to be hoodwinked into nuptials, disguises an alien age-reversal potion as perfume and allows his crazed bride to spritz herself.

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This plan works except for the facts that A.) Lois sprays the substance on the Man of Steel too; and B.) Superman's reputation has taken a turn for the Humbert Humbert.

The potion de-ages the duo even further, to the point that baby Lois and Superman are wheeled into a chapel for an insane infant wedding. I can only assume this wedding was approved because Superman, on a bored whim, once rerouted Metropolis' water supply from an aquifer to a boxed wine factory.

9.) Superman's April Fools Screw-You

In 1958's Lois Lane #4, Superman's friend Jimmy Olsen hypnotizes the Last Son of Krypton into proposing to Lois as an April Fools stunt. Lois — who's been the victim of soul-shattering romantic fuckwittery because of Superman — is understandably cautious.

To cancel the wedding, Jimmy fakes Clark Kent's death because Jimmy's a horrible, horrible man-child.

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8.) Lois turns into a baby (again)

Incidentally, Lois had her age reversed every other week during the Silver Age of Comics. In 1959's Lois Lane #10, our mishap-prone heroine activates a de-aging machine and accidentally becomes an infant. To teach her a lesson about vanity, Superman will only feed her the antidote via baby bottle. It's worth mentioning that Batman's exhibited similar predilections to spanking.

After spending 24 hours moonlighting as an African American woman, Lois demands some hard truths from the Last Son of Krypton.

What will he say? WHAT WILL HE SAY?

Whoops, Superman is saved by the bell! I mean, melting epidermis. Whatever, it's one of those multifunctional idioms.

BONUS: Part 1 of the 1970 DC Comics reader survey, in which Superman "raps" with Seventies You about your interest in such topics as "astrology" and "black people." Also see DC Comics' "Brotherhood Quotient."